Focus Verse: “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11:28, ESV) Have you ever heard someone describe their weariness or fatigue as “worn to the bone”? Maybe you’ve been there yourself. You are weary, running on empty, worn out, and…
“Looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled.” (Hebrews 12:15, NKJV) At the time of this writing, I am experiencing a weed problem in my yard. I have tried pulling them out…
“And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” (Romans 12:2, NKJV) Social media is everywhere. Everyone posts everything, from what they eat to what they do.…
“A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other.” – Unknown Before I got married, I was an independent, self-reliant woman, priding myself on not needing a man to make me happy. However, I was fooling myself. I wanted to be married. I…
Focus Verse “I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes, and by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, Till he please.” (Song of Solomon 2:7, KJV) Introduction: As a child, I dreamed of being married; I would imagine…
One of my piano students’ families comes every week with four beautiful, well-behaved, little children. They sit and play quietly while the others have their lessons. I watch in awe because my kids weren’t like this at their age! It’s not how God made our personalities. Our family is quirky.…
If we can’t hear God speaking into our lives–it isn’t a physical problem, it’s a spiritual problem. God is speaking, but we must learn to distinguish God’s voice from other voices. There is such a multiplicity of voices that try to speak into our lives and all of them are…
Genesis does not appear first in the Bible by chance. Everything else in the Bible flows out of the book of Genesis. God always has order to everything He does. God does not, nor has He ever, worked by chance. He is always intentional. As we study Genesis, we quickly…
A stronghold is an area in which we are held in bondage to a certain way of thinking. A stronghold means a fort or fortress; a fortified place and place of security. Strongholds are formed from our thought patterns of imaginations, logic, emotions and perceptions. When sin or emotional wounding…